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The Orb: Re-entering the Ultraworld
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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The ambient house pioneers The Orb talk about their sample and slice journey.

  • Added: Jun 12, 2008
  • Length: 03:30
Jamshied Sharifi: Persian moods and vocal ecstacy
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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His CD "One" brings global vocal traditions together

  • Added: Jun 04, 2008
  • Length: 03:32
Virtuoso Voices - Emmanuel Pahud (Clearly in Charge)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Emmanuel Pahud, Credit: Photo by Shelia Rock
When the soloist and orchestra are playing a concerto, who's in charge? Is it the soloist, the conductor - the orchestra? Someone has to make sur...

  • Added: May 31, 2008
  • Length: :20
Will Shade Tribute
From: WKNO
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Will Shade, founder of the popular Memphis Jug Band, buried in a pauper's grave had no headstone, until 2008.

  • Added: May 08, 2008
  • Length: 03:26
Virtuoso Voices - Rolf Smedvig (Gabrieli and Led Zeppelin)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Listening to brass music by Giovanni Gabrieli is a lesson in rich harmonies and inventive melodies. Gabrieli's music is also a lesson in sound, as...

Bought by KVLU


  • Added: Apr 30, 2008
  • Length: :23
  • Purchases: 1
Virtuoso Voices - Orli Shaham (Instant Feedback)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
Caption: Orli Shaham, Credit: Christian Steiner
Pianist Orli Shaham dreams of playing in front of the enthusiastic and traditionally very responsive audiences that attend the figure skating compe...

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Apr 30, 2008
  • Length: 01:31
  • Purchases: 1
Homophobic Songs Spark Debate Over Human Rights vs Artistic License
From: Jonah Engle
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A look at the growing campaign against homophobic dancehall songs

Bought by WBHM and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 17, 2008
  • Length: 08:25
  • Purchases: 2
Virtuoso Voices - Marin Alsop (Oops, Excuse Me)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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At the heart of Brahms' first two symphonies, conductor Marin Alsop hears great joy, especially at the end, where both symphonies finish with a tri...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2008
  • Length: :21
Virtuoso Voices - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (Science Fiction Piano)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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The Piano Concerto No. 5 by Saint-Saens is known as the "Egyptian" Concerto, because it includes a melody from a song Saint-Saens heard while vacat...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2008
  • Length: :25
Virtuoso Voices - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (French Hypnotist)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet has recorded nearly every piano work by Erik Satie. His music could be melancholy and mysterious. Thibaudet says Sati...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2008
  • Length: :23
Your Brain On Music
From: WHPC
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Studies show that many areas of your brain process music.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2008
  • Length: 03:04
Einstuerzende Neubauten and their new album "Alles wieder offen"
From: Arndt Peltner
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One of the true musical pioneers release a brand new album

  • Added: Nov 01, 2007
  • Length: 01:01:11
Virtuoso Voices - Michael Torke (Early Repuation)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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If you're a well established performer, writer or artist of any kind, you're likely to have your fans tell you they like your early work the best. ...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2007
  • Length: :20
Virtuoso Voices - John Adams (Grumpy Players)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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As talented and exceptionally skilled as today's orchestra musicians may be, there are plenty of living composers whose music still presents a chal...

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Sep 30, 2007
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
George Bush Is Dead
From: Ken Cormier
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A musical theme for the final year of George Bush's presidency.

  • Added: Jul 17, 2007
  • Length: 03:05
The Tristan Mysteries: The Five Hour Mysteries
From: WNYC
Series: The Tristan Mysteries
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Wagner's classic love story "Tristan und Isolde" revealed.

Bought by Remix Radio and WBEZ


  • Added: Jun 06, 2007
  • Length: 16:37
  • Purchases: 2
HEAT -- Chance Encounters of Love
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: HEAT with JOHN HOCKENBERRY
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Chance encounters of love with singer Nora York, renown chef Vertamae Grosvenor and a reading of Raymond Carver's "What We Talk About When We Talk ...

Bought by WCPN, KERA, WCQS, and KUT


  • Added: Apr 03, 2007
  • Length: 58:34
  • Purchases: 4
Next Generation Radio @ SXSW
From: Next Generation Radio
Series: NPR's Next Generation Radio
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SXSW and "the underdog."

Bought by WMNF


  • Added: Mar 19, 2007
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Biography of Leonard Cohen 1HR
From: Steve Damien
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A one hour look at this Canadian singer songwriter, featuring various songs from his career.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, Prairie Public, KREV-LP, KGOU, KMUN and more


  • Added: Mar 07, 2007
  • Length: 59:27
  • Purchases: 7
Cullen Anderson; Come On Home
From: Ryan Smith
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6 minute thought provoking piece on local musician...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2007
  • Length: 06:00
Virtuoso Voices - Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (No Way Sibelius)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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What really motivated Sibelius to write his Violin Concerto? Violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg says he wrote this "ridiculously, unnecessarily aw...

Bought by WITF and New England Public Media


  • Added: Oct 30, 2006
  • Length: :27
  • Purchases: 2
That's My Song: Sex (I'm a...)
From: outLoud Radio at Youth Radio
Series: That's My Song
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How a song by New Wave band Berlin, and a generous act by their lead singer, helped a young lesbian feel she wasn't alone.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 25, 2006
  • Length: 04:35
  • Purchases: 1
Surrender
From: Rigel Crockett
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A story about Prohibition, the Drug War, music, and Savannah?s maritime history music

  • Added: Apr 25, 2006
  • Length: 17:46
Style Warz: an underground M.C. battle from the inside out
From: Aaron Henkin
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A look at Baltimore's preeminent M.C. competition, Style Warz, from the perspective of the rappers who square off in front of a live audience to do...

Bought by WZBC


  • Added: Mar 27, 2006
  • Length: 49:27
  • Purchases: 1
Sam Cooke: Bring it on Home to Me
From: Joyride Media
Series: Black History Month Specials
Caption: PRX default Piece image
One-hour documentary details the life and music of Sam Cooke.

Bought by KPSQ-LP, Prairie Public, WKMS, KMUW, KAAD-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 18, 2005
  • Length: 59:05
  • Purchases: 44

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